After days of joint press conferences on the winter storm, Metro and Nashville Electric Service met the public separately on Thursday as Mayor Freddie O’Connell called on NES to provide better information to the tens of thousands of Nashvillians still without power.
“I think the thing we’ve been looking for is the same thing that Nashvillians who still lack power have been looking for, which is help us understand which communities they’re in, how much work is actually being done, how difficult the circumstances on the ground are at each outage site,” O’Connell said. “Help us with data, help us with visuals, help us with all those things. … Show the work, tell the story. Help people understand. Even if it’s bad news, share the bad news, because it’s better to have that than just no understanding of what is going on.”
NES is managed by the Electric Power Board, members of which are appointed by the mayor. Since O’Connell took office in 2023, two of the five board seats have come up for appointment…